The Paper Jewels Daily Gem

A new Raj (India, Pakistan, Sri Lanka or Myanmar) postcard here, on Instagram and Facebook every 72 hours. Can also be perused as categories. Based on the book Paper Jewels Postcards from the Raj by Omar Khan (Mapin/Alkazi, 2018).

Watch our new Postcard Pearls, brief videos blending old postcards with the locations today. Watch #1 Frere Hall Karachi and #2 Sukkur: Bridge on the Indus.

Calcutta 1897 1897	Tanjore dancing girl 1899	Madras. Senate House. ca 1905
Ceylon. Hindoo God Siva. ca 1906	The Taj, Agra ca 1908	Bombay. A Peep into the Victoria Gardens. ca 1908
Kashmir The Tuckt of Sunamon ca 1905	The Punjab Club, Lahore ca 1910	Town Hall, Simla ca 1910
Entrance to Taj, Agra ca 1908	Bombay (City) from Watson's Hotel ca 1905	Hotel Cecil 1920
The Burning Ghat, Benares ca 1900	Lakeside View, Kandy, Ceylon. ca 1910	At The Dussera Mysore ca 1906
A model of Punjab beauty ca 1905	Band Stand, People's Park, Madras ca 1905	A Street Scene, Delhi ca 1909
9 Reconciliation at last 1907	8 Dismissed 1907	6. What is this 1907
10 New maid-servant 1907	7 False defense. 1907	1 Young Maid Servant 1907
5. Wife enraged 1907	3. How Sweet you are! 1907	4. Hush! My Wife! My wife! 1907
2 At First Sight 1907	Madras Date Palms ca 1905	City Line To and From India ca 1904

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